Blur

Extraordinary hotel-room musings in vinyl-only form

Back in January, Arthur Lee sold out two nights at the Royal Festival Hall. They were magical shows, Lee performing '67's classic Forever Changes in its entirety, complete with horns and strings. Some complained on the night about the sound balance, but there's no problem with the quality here. Lee's in celebratory mood, as he and his backing band LA psychedelicists Baby Lemonade storm through classics like "Bummer In The Summer" in a blur of brass and strings. Superlative stuff.

"Thirteen big, salty tears," blurbs Black. "Like 13 little black dogs just born... ready to howl at the world"

Inspired world music outing is first album in six years from former Specials frontman Hall

Three days of mixed magic and Madness in leafy Surrey, from Thea Gilmore, Love, Cosmic Rough Riders, Alice Cooper, Jesse Malin, a befezzed marching band and more...

Dizzee Rascal is the best rapper this country's ever produced, period. His words are as sharp as prime Tricky, his delivery sharper; he's got bags more personality than anybody in the British rap scene. These local comparisons add up to faint praise, though, so how about this: 18-year-old, East London-bred Dizzee Rascal is as good as any MC currently active on Earth. Every UK garage MC brags about how his style's unique, and virtually every MC does it using the same flow and timbre.

Being John Malkovich team twist the rules of narrative to ingenious comic effect

Must-see documentary puts Britpop in wider context

Adventurous second album from Belgian soundscape-jazzers

Swan song from Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy's post-punk trailblazers. Includes five add-ons